SOURCE: Lessig, Matthew. “Class, Character, and Croppers: Faulkner's Snopeses and the Plight of the Sharecropper.” Arizona Quarterly 55, no. 4 (winter 1999): 79-113.
In the following essay, Lessig examines the historical realm of poor Southern whites and Faulkner's portrayal and opinion of them in his Snopes fiction.